Susan Tichy

Susan Elizabeth Tichy (born 25 April 1952 Washington, D.C.) is an American poet.^[1]

Life

She received a B.A. from Goddard College and an M.A. from the University of Colorado, and is a Full Professor at George Mason University, where she has taught since 1988 in the MFA and undergraduate programs.^[2] For five years she was Executive Producer of Poetry Theater: An Evening of Visual Poetics, and also served as poetry editor for the short-lived but gorgeously produced journal, "'Practice: New Writing + Art," based in the Bay area.

Her work has appeared in AGNI,^[3] Beloit Poetry Journal,^[4] Cerise Press, Colorado Review ,Court Green, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Free Verse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review,^[5] Ploughshares,^[6] 42opus,^[7] Runes, and other journals.

She also lives in the southern Colorado Rockies.

Awards

• 1982 National Poetry Series, for The Hands in Exile
• Eugene Kayden Award
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Chad Walsh Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal
• Indiana Review Prize for Poetry
• Runes Prize for Poetry
• Quarter After Eight Prize for Innovative Prose

Works

• "VERSARI", Beltway Poetry Quarterly

• A Smell of Burning Starts the Day. Wesleyan University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-8195-1154-6. 
• The Hands in Exile. Random House. 1983. ISBN 978-0-394-52977-6. 
• Bone Pagoda. Ahsahta Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-916272-91-3. 
• Gallowglass. Ahsahta Press. 2010. 978-1-934103-13-5

Anthologies

• William J. Walsh, ed. (2006). Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6. 
• Dave Smith, David Bottoms, ed. (1985). The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Photographer David Bottoms. Quill. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4. 

Reviews

In Bone Pagoda, Susan Tichy’s third full-length collection of poetry and her first in nearly 20 years, the poet explores the stark and horrifying realities of war and its aftermath through a fierce lyricism, an insistent and bodily music that urges the reader to say these poems aloud.^[8]

References

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Author's university website"